PeriodicTable.jl

A very simple package for accessing elements in the Periodic Table! 🔥

Installation

julia> Pkg.clone("https://github.com/rahulkp220/PeriodicTable.jl.git")

Update

julia> Pkg.update("PeriodicTable")

How it works?

PeriodicTable.jl provides a Julia interface to a small database of element properties for all of the elements in the periodic table. In particular

using PeriodicTable

exports a global variable called elements, which is a collection of Element data structures. You can look up elements by name (case-insensitive) via elements["oxygen"], by symbol via elements[:O], or by number via elements[8], for example.

Each element has fields name, appearance, atomic_mass, boil, category, color, density, discovered_by, melt, molar_heat, named_by, number, period, phase, source, spectral_img, summary, symbol, xpos, ypos, shells.

This data is pretty-printed when you look up an element in the Julia REPL. For example:

julia> elements["oxygen"]
Oxygen (O), number 8:
        category: diatomic nonmetal
     atomic mass: 15.999 u
         density: 1.429 g/cm³
   melting point: 54.36 K
   boiling point: 90.188 K
           phase: Gas
          shells: [2, 6]
         summary: Oxygen is a chemical element with symbol O and atomic number 8. It is a member of the chalcogen group on the periodic table and is a highly reactive nonmetal and oxidizing agent that readily forms compounds (notably oxides) with most elements. By mass, oxygen is the third-most abundant element in the universe, after hydrogen and helium.
   discovered by: Carl Wilhelm Scheele
        named by: Antoine Lavoisier
          source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen
  spectral image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Oxygen_spectre.jpg
 

Alternatively, you may want to get a list of elements,

julia> elements[1:4]
4-element Array{PeriodicTable.Element,1}:
 Element(Hydrogen) 
 Element(Helium)   
 Element(Lithium)  
 Element(Beryllium)

View the Periodic Table!

julia> elements
Elements(…119 elements…):
H                                                  He
Li Be                               B  C  N  O  F  Ne
Na Mg                               Al Si P  S  Cl Ar
K  Ca Sc Ti V  Cr Mn Fe Co Ni Cu Zn Ga Ge As Se Br Kr
Rb Sr Y  Zr Nb Mo Tc Ru Rh Pd Ag Cd In Sn Sb Te I  Xe
Cs Ba    Hf Ta W  Re Os Ir Pt Au Hg Tl Pb Bi Po At Rn
Fr Ra    Rf Db Sg Bh Hs Mt Ds Rg Cn Nh Fl Mc Lv Ts Og
Uue                                                   
      La Ce Pr Nd Pm Sm Eu Gd Tb Dy Ho Er Tm Yb Lu    
      Ac Th Pa U  Np Pu Am Cm Bk Cf Es Fm Md No Lr

Data by

• Periodic-Table-JSON

Developed together with

• Steven G. Johnson
• Jacob Wikmark

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